Transfer or coupon collector and counter.



F. G. JAHN.

TRANSFER 0R COUPON COLLECTOR AND COUNTER.

APPLICATION HLED JUNE I6, 1934.

1,232,319. Patented July 3,1917.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 16- I914.

Patented J ulyl), 1917.

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TRANSFER OR COUPON COLLECTOR AND COUNTER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK G. JAI-IN, OE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNQR TO INTERNATIONAL POSTAL SUPPLY COMPANY. A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TRANSFER OR COUPON COLLECTOR AND COUNTERQ Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1917'.

Application filed June 16, 1914. Serial No. 845,354.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnsnniucn G. JAHN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Transfer or Coupon Collectors and Counters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has the primary purpose of providing a machine for counting transfers. Street railways are troubled with keeping track of the transfers collected from the passengers. Passengers generally enter cars in crowds at transfer points, and the conductor has to collect the transfers rapidly, particularly in the present type of pay as you enter cars. The street car company loses by the fact that the subsequent counting of the transfers by the conductors may not be accurate, either through intention or accident. It will be understood that the transfers are necessarily of cheap limp paper, and further that they are quite often crumpled, wet, folded or torn when handed to the conductor. making it difiicnlt even for a careful or skilled person to correctly count the same. \Vith conductors, and under the conditions of street car traflic, it is found that this count is very in accurate, even with the more careful and scrupulous men. It is therefore impossible to check up frauds practised upon the company by the miscounting of transfers. Moreover for the very purpose of checking the above human errors, it is evidently necessary to have girls subsequently go over the count, which is an item of considerable expense and trouble. Therefore it is strongly desirable, and a thing long sought for by the street car companies, to provide some appliance which shall relieve the conductors of the trouble and vexation of counting stacks of wet, limp or torn and crumpled transfers, also relieving them of the blame of unintentional mistakes, further precluding the possibility of fraudulent counting by dishonestconductors. and avoiding the expense of the corps of girls, who now count the transfers as a check on the conductors. It is the primary purpose of the present invention to provide sucha machine. Of course, the machine is capable of other uses, and in some other such uses certain requisites of strength, and proof against tampering or unintentional or accidental misuse will not be required, or required to the same extent. For example, in counting bills or tickets received at a theater or the like, and many sorts of receipts or checks of commercial practices, it may be possible to dispense with a portion of the precautionary and other special features herein employed. In other words, the present invention as described in the practical "embodiment herein set forth includes a variety of features, the advantages of which will be apparent, but many of the features and points are to be differentiated as minor and subsidiary, from what is primary and essential. Such modifications throughout, as fulfil the same inherent purposes, will also suggest themselves.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a top view of a transfer counter embodying the principles of this invention.

Fig. 2 is a front view of the same with the casing partly broken away.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line Ill III of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a side view of the gripper drum.

Fig. 5 is an end view of the same.

Fig. 6 is a similar view partly in section with some of the parts removed for clearness, and also showing part of the Geneva stop wheel.

Fig. 7 is a similar view showing a position of the parts when a transfer or the like is gripped.

Fig. 8 is a longitudinal sectional through the gripper operating cams.

Fig. 9 is a longitudinal sectional view through the drum head showing the grippers and secondary levers.

Fig. 10 is a side view of the main operat ing lever for the gripper drum.

Fig. 11 is a detail sectional view of the same.

Fig. 12 is an end view showing the counter and a train of actuating gears therefor.

Fig. 13 is a view of a main operating lever for the gripper drum having a slightly modified construction.

Fig. 14 is a sectional view of the same.

Fig. '15 is another modification showing a counter on the side of a box or casing instead of at the top.

Fig. '16 shows same form outside of box.

Gripper (Zrzm2-.Constructions embod v view ing the invention will include a gripper drum 10 or carrier adapted to be intermittentlyrotated or moved from a transfer receiving position to a transfer discharging position. Transfer grippers, as 11, will be supported on this carrier. The action of the grippers and carriers is such as to afford a register or actuation of a registering mechanism when a transfer is engaged by the carrier, but on the other hand there will be a positive and definitely controlled omission of such registering action when a transfer is not being engaged and carried from the receiving to the delivery position.

Constructions embodying the invention will also include a stacker 12 by which transfers or the like are neatly piled in bundles or packages, in which condition they may be removed from the machine. This removal will however only be possible by an authorized person.

In the best constructions embodying the invention the motion of the gripper carrier is controlled'by a lip 17 of a hopper mouth 13 through which the transfers are fed into the machine. The action is a prompt, positive, easy and definite displace ment of the gripper carrier when the lip of the hopper is manually swung outward. It will also be seen that provision is made for having the apparatus fool proof, and also proof against wilful tampering. For example, provision is made against the possibility of feeding in a transfer in any way without giving a count. The count will be given whether the transfer is long 01' short or torn or folded. Also the machine will in no case give any count when a transfer is not inserted. The result is that a count is made for all the passengers giving up transfers. The convenient insertion of the transfers into the hopper mouth of the machine makes it possible to inforce the prompt and immediate registering of such transfers, as a matter of discipline, in other words the insertion of the transfers into the hopper, individually as they are collected, can be made a matter as inforceable as is the present practice of depositing the coins collected into a hopper. Provision is also made for such a prompt gripping of the transfers as will insure their being drawn into the machine even though carelessly deposited in the hopper 13, or perhaps held back somewhat by a wet condition or the accidental holding back by the conductors hand in manipulating the machine.

In the best constructions embodying the invention the mechanism will be housed in a compact casing 15, having a depressed hopper mouth 13. The front lip 17 of the hopper mouth can be displaced by a pull forwardly as shown by dotted lines 17 in Figs. 3 and 13. For this purpose this lip 17 is conveniently pivoted, and as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 13 it is fixed to a shaft or axle 18 which extends across the machine adja cent to the front side of the gripper drum 10. As shown clearly in Fig. 3, the hopper or receiving mouth presents a passage substantially tangential to the periphery of the drum. This shaft or axle 18 may be termed an actuator shaft.

-21 fixed frame bar 19 serves the threefold purpose of closing any gap in the casing 15 at the base of the lip 17, also affording a strong back stop, which may be covered with felt 20 to softly limit the downward move ment of the lip or actuator 17, and also constituting a support for a finger plate 21 which has upwardly curved fingers 22 directing the transfers into the bite of the grippers. For this purpose the fingers 22 alternate with the grippers 11, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. In other words, the fingers 22 project so far toward the axis of the gripper carrier that they would interfere with the grippers, except for the fact that they are alternated with the grippers so as to be out of the path of the rotation of the grippers. It is particularly to be noted that the strength of the bar 19 is adequate to arrest the foward pull of the lip 17 even although the actuation thereof be very forcible. On the other hand, such excessive force will not find an opportunity to act on any other part of the mechanism, particularly on the operating parts. 7

The drum 10 already referred to, which in the embodiment illustrated constitutes a r0 tating carrier for the transfers, is substantially a multiple disk or skeleton cylinder on a shaft or axis having bearings, preferably ball bearings 25, in the end plates of he casing 15. The gripper carrier is preferably of skeleton formation, being practically composed of a series of thin plates or disks 26, held apart by spacers 27. At the ends of the gripper drum illustrated are strong plates 28 which may be termed gripper drum heads. One of the principal purposes of the skeleton formation just clecribed is to afford a free movement of the grippers, not only outward into open position to receive a transfer, but also into closed position to grip the transfer, and into a p0 sition still further inward, corresponding to when a transfer is not present. A series of a considerable number of grippers makes the action positive even when the transfers are folded and limp or wet, or when a very short transfer or coupon from a transfer, is collected.

In order to well accomplish these various functions the grippers 11 are evenly mount ed in several extensive series on a plurality of gripper axles 30 spaced around the gripper drum. The grippers alternate in position with the gripper drum disks 26 as clearly shown in Fig. 2. On one of the heads 23 of the gripper drum a mechanism is conveniently provided for operating the grippers. This mechanism may be generally termed the gripper operating mechanism.

1h ecms for operating the grippers.An efficient construction for operating the grippers consists of a lever arm 32 fixed to each gripper axle 30, the arm 32 being of double plate construction in the interest of strength and durability, and having a cam roll firmly pivoted thereto on a fixed stud 35 joining such double plates which constitute the arm This cam roll engages a cam 3i (see Figs. 5, 6 and 7 which for present purposes may be considered a stationary or fixed cam secured to one of the side plates of the case of the main frame 15 (see particularly Fig. 8). It will be seen from Figs. 6 and 7 that the rotation of the gripper drum in the direction of the arrow causes the cam roll 33 which is spring pressed inward by spring %3, to move toward and from the axis of the gripper drum, as this cam roll rides up and down around the cam 3%. In both Figs. 6 and 7 the gripper has just snapped inward from its open transfer receiving position. In Fig. (3, however, the gripper has closed farther inward than in Fig. 7 because no transfer is in position to be engaged in Fig. 6, while a transfer is held under the gripper in Fig. 7, thereby preventing the gripper from closing in as far as in Fig. 6. This difference in the position of the grippers when a transfer is being engaged, and when no transfer is present to be engaged, constitutes a form of means for affording a registration only when a transfer is being fed. This may be advantageously taken up under a separate head.

The counter studs 072' the gripper carri@r.-In the practi'al construction illustrated, the position of the grippers 11 acts to position a counter stud $0 at a different radial position out on the gripper drum 10 in one case fromthat in another case. In order to get sufficient displacement of the stud it), a multiplying leverage is advantageous, and the gripper operating arm 32 is shown with an extension 36 engaging a tappet 37 of a secondary lever 38 which is spring controlled, by spring 39, to normally assume the position shown in Fig. 7. This secondary lever 38 carries the counter stud it) in this construction and is conveniently made with a double plate construction for strength, with. a folded over integral back plate 4 1 which engages a neighboring operating gripper arm 32 so as to constitute a stop. This fixes the spring controlled position of the secondary lever and counter stud 4:0 as shown in Fig. 7. On the other hand, the engagement of the gripper operating arm extension 36 with the tappet 37 displaces this secondary lever- 38 to the extent shown in Fig. 6 where it and its counter stud it) have a different position radially outward from the center or axis of the gripper drum than in Fig. '7. The grippers themselves are of course constrained to mov inward into position to grip the transfers by means of the springs l3 already mentioned. These springs L3 conveniently run from the tie rods 27 as shown in Fig. 5 to an ear 49 on the gripper operating arms It is obvious that the spring 13 must be strong enough to verpower the spring 39 of the secondary lever. The counter stud 40 travels in a path controlled as just described as to radius. being otherwise borne in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 7 by the rotation of the spring drum. This counter stud will therefore engage the notches of a Geneva stop wheel 50 or similar device, in case its radial position is such as to permit this, which is the case when a transfer is present, as is shown in Fig. 7. The Geneva stop wheel is of course normally locked by its engagement with the drum head 28. The drum head will be cut away at 51, beneath the pin or stud T0, to permit the unlocking of the Geneva stop wheel and the actuation by the counter stud 450. Referring particularly to Figs. 7 and 15, it will be seen that the pin 40 at the instant of engaging the Geneva wheel 50 has a force put thereon tending to strain the arm 38 into a fixed position with the stud i1 against the abutment 30. This has the effect of virtually locking said stud L0 in place while the Geneva wheel is being actuated. In other words, the only possible movement of the stud i0 is directly against its engagement with the said Geneva wheel, which virtually looks it in place during such engagement. The are or angle through which the transfer is carried includes the position where the counter stud a0 is passing the Geneva stop wheel or like device, and in the form illustrated in the drawings this angle or are is about 120 degrees. Fig. 9 illustrates a practical detail of the prior bearing for the secondary lever 38 which is a sleeve ii fixed on the tie rod 27 by a nut 4:5.

Instant gripper 0Z0aure.hfention has been made of the cam 34 which controls the grippers and thereby fixes the are or angle of movement through w rich the transfers are carried. It will be evident that when the cam rollers 33 ride up on a high part of the cam 3% that the grippers 11 are open, but on the other hand, when the cam rollers 33 pass opposite a cut away part of th cam 3 1, the grippers close inward under the influence of the springs It is very desirable that the grippers move in promptly, that is to say with a snap. This is desirable in that it permits the grippers to engage the transfer more forcibly, as by impelling the same more or less with any teeth or serrated edges as desired. Aside from this it permits the transfers to start in motion very promptly and positively as obviously the grippers must be free or wide open when the transfer is inserted in order to enable its convenient insertion, and thereafter it is important that the grippers get closed as quickly and speedily as possible, since otherwise time and'motion is lost before the grippers are fully closed. During this period the transfer may slip from its original 'position where it was to be engaged, and in any event it is important in this mechanism not to have any time and motion lost for there is little of either to spare in such a manipulation as has been described in the preamble to this specification. Therefre, the cam 3A is made composite in a'practical construction embodying the present invention, having two parts 34? and 3 1 the part 34 being actually fixed in the machine as shown in Fig. 8. The part 3 1*, however, is capable of slight backward reaction within the limits of the notch 55. The pin 56 which projects from the cam part 349 is engaged by a spring 57 normally impelling this cam part 34* into the position of Fig. 5. The instant that the cam roller 33 begins to move inward, however, the cam part 343 is kicked, so to speak, by the reaction out of the way so that the cam roller 33 moves inward sharply and suddenly as soon as it is started, as if there were a sharp shoulder passing off a sharp corner on the cam, in other words, by a practically instantaneous movement. The closing of the grippers with a snap in this way from their fully open position to their fully closed position is obviously an important and desirable practical feature for the reasons mentioned.

. The e0zmt'er.A feature of improvement consists in the means by which the register is positively locked at all times, except when being actuated, and is actuated in such a way as to prevent any mistaken count due to any accidental or wilful uses or manipulation to which the machine may be exposed. Mention has been made of the initial Geneva stop wheel or like device, of a counter or recorder mechanism of any suitable or desirable character. For Geneva stop wheel 50 may carry a gear 60 which is the first of a train of gears 61, 62, 63 and 64:, the gear 64 being on the axle of a usual counter 65, the details of which need not be illustrated since counters of general character illustrated are well known in me chanics. It is desirable to have duplicate counters, one capable of being reset, while the other shows the aggregate total at all times. Duplicate counters of this kind are common for use in various arts. In place of a counter, it is of course possible to use other registering or indicating devices. An alconvenience the ternative style of counter is illustrated in Fig. 15, embodying three numeral disks 50', 58, 59 mutually interconnected by Geneva stop gears 50, 58 and 59 of ordinary form.

The stae/cer.1t has been shown that the transfers are engaged by the grippers and carried by the gripper carrier for a certain distance, and as illustrated this distance is a third of a revolution on the gripper drum shown. At the end of this movement the grippers open, as described, by reason of their cam rolls 33 riding on to a high part of the cam 3%. At this instant transfers are being deposited in substantially the position of Fig. 3. r

In the best constructions embodying the invention transfers are collected into a stack or bundle on a removable shelf or suitable box, such shelf, where employed, having provision for gradually retreating as the transfers accumulate. As illustrated the shelf 67 is located directly against the gripper drum l0, and is normally pressed there against by a pair of spiral springs 68. The shelf 67 is guided by upstanding guides 69 and a back wall or stop 70, which has overhanging tongues 71, which finally arrest the transfers when properly located on the shelf 67. The slight friction between the disks 26 and the top transfer on the shelf 67 insures the neat piling up or positioning of the transfers against the back stop 7 0. As the transfers accumulate the shelf 67 automatically descends. At suitable times the entire package of transfers may be taken out. A handle 72 affords an easy means for pulling out the shelf or box and its entire associated parts, it being understood that a suitable door 73 has previously been unlocked and opened.

The movements of the gripper earm'er. The fact that the gripper carrier has certain movements imparted thereto, and the further fact that the usual prime actuator or mover consists of the lip 17 of the hopper mouth 13, has already been pointed out as characteristic of best embodiments of this invention. The means for transmitting the motion from one to the other of these elements shouldinsure a number of conditions.

First, the gripper carrier should be locked in its normal position, second, it should be unlocked and started into rotation without possibility of retreating or doing anything less than completing the movement thus started. Third, the motion of the gripper carrier should be positively stopped when its proper movement has been completed, fourth, it should be relocked in its new position. Fifth, it should not be possible by any unusual manipulation of the original actuator to cause either any greater or any less movement than this, at least so .far as the ultimate result of producing a registration or afiording an opportunity for feed ing a following transfer is concerned. Sixth, all of the movements shall be at all times unable to oppose any direct opposition to a free movement of the original actuator, which otherwise would strain the -more delicate parts by applying an excessive force to them. Seventh, the transmi. sion of motion from the actuator" to the gripper carrier should be very efficient at all stages, since this strains the delicate mechanism less, and also makes the movement of the original actuator easier, further securing a more equal and freer movement of the gripper carrier without any jerks or parses.

These various purposes or objects are attained by the mechanism practically illustrated in Figs. 3 and 10; and also 13 and 11-. Upon the axle 18 of the original actuator, serving in this case as the actuator shaft, is secured an arm having reversed hooks S1 and 82, the hook 81 having a normal position as shown in Figs. 3 and 10. It will be observed that the hook 82 has a notch 83 at its base which receives a tooth or stud St projecting from the drum head 28 at this end of the machine. The preceding tooth or stud Sat of the series around the drum head is just clear of the hook 81 at this time. A feeding pawl 85 depends from an extremity 95 of the actuator plate 80 and has a hooked end 86 (see Fig. 10) engaging over another of the studs 84:, in this case the third and remaining stud S f of the series, there being three sets of grippers on the gripper carrying drum. In addition to the features thus far considered the hook 82 has further an arcuate extension 87, which is sufficiently projecting to always oppose a barrier to any return movement of the adjacent stud S l This extension 87, however, is terminated at such a point as to permit the passage of the third stud 8% when the rotation of the gripper drum has been sufficient to nearly move the stud 8t to the position shown occupied by the stud S l At this time the hook 81 has been projected to such an extent as to independently prevent any reverse movement of the gripper drum, and also offer a positive stop to arrest the stud 8% which has been by this time turned to the position now shown oc cupied by the stud 84. It will further be observed that the motion of the actuator plate 80 is pivotal about an axis so close to the gripper drum as to give an easy turning effect thereto especially when the movement is imparted through a comparatively long link such as the feeding pawl 85. Moreover, the position of the axis of oscillation of the actuator plate 80 is such as to make the pull on the feeding pawl 80 as nearly in direct line with the motion of the parts connected thereto at the starting end as possible, Due to these various features the rotation of the gripper drum through a third of a rotation is readily secured by the oscillation of the lip 17 as already described, and the further functions pointed out are also secured in an obvious manner. An additional locking pawl 88, to prevent rearward rotation of the gripper drum, may be added if desired. A. further feature which may be mentioned consists in the fact that the feeding pawl 86 (see 10) has an extension 90 which contacts with the bearing or some equivalent abutment, when the feeding pawl is descending. lhis action thrusts the feeding pawl over the stud S-lso as to engage the same instead of passing inside the stud 8t and failing to engage the same. This feature is merely incidental to the carrying out of the purposes first above described in the manner mentioned.

The mechanism just described is also illustrated in Fig. 13 which however, has one additional. feature. According to Fig. 13 the feeding pawl 85 has a lateral projection 92 which swings upward into contact with an abutment 93, thereby giving the feeding pawl a certain inward directing force which accords with the somewhat altered direction of movement of the stud 8 t at this time. This gives a more advantageous t-ractive or puliing effect on such stud. As indicated in F 11 the feeding pawl 85 is conveniently pivoted to the actuator plate 80 by having a bent-over ear 9% which embraces the extremity 95 of such plate 80. A pair of hardened washers 96 are firmly riveted through at this extremity 95 after the feeding pawl 85 has been properly located, thereby fixing all the parts permanently in pivotal relation, and securing a hard and good bearing surface as well.

Genera? 0])67"(f071-.Tl18 general operation of the above construction, is briefly to drop the transfers, individually as collected, into the. hopper mouth 13, and then pull upon the lip 17 which through the actuator plate 80 lifts the feeding pawl .85, and thereby pulls the tooth or stud 8t upward until the drum has been rotated through a third of a revolution. As the drum rotates the grippers 11 first snap closed by reason of their cam rolls 33 dropping into a low part of the fixed cam 3i. Subsequently, after a third of a revolution, the grippers open by reason of their cam rolls riding onto a high part of this same cam 34:, or an associated part thereof. As the grippers release the transfer the latter is pushed snugly into place on the receiving shelf or stacker 6? by the frictional engagement of the gripper drum, which also exerts a certain camining down effect on the pile and assists the uniform stacking of the transfers. The transfers are subsequently removed by drawing out the entire stacker which has the tongues 71 to hold the transfers in a unit pile While being so Withdrawn. In this.

way they may be conveniently dropped into envelops or otherwise banded into a bundle in the most convenient way. The movement of the grippers in engaging the trans fers influences the position of a counter-stud 40 on the gripper drum to such an extent that in case a transfer has been grasped this stud engages and actuates the Geneva wheel 10. If, on the other hand, no transfer is in place, the inward movement of the grippers is excessive and results in such a posi tioning of the counter-stud 40 that the Geneva Wheel 50 is not engaged, and no count results. Thus the transfers are accurately counted as well as stacked and collected. The additional features of operation by which special effects are secured, such as the precise control of the gripper drum in this movement, the locking and unlocking there of, and the proof against tampering or misuse have already been alluded to in taking up the various mechanisms in the earlier part of the description, and need not be here repeated.

What is claimed is 1. In a machine of the class described, a gripper carrier, an actuator therefor, a casing having a mouth adjacent to said actuator and delivering in proximity to said carrier, a counter, and means connected to the carrier for locking the counter against movement during idle or non-feeding movements of said gripper carrier.

2. In a machine of the class described, a carrier, an actuator therefor, grippers on said carrier, a casing having a mouth adjacent to said actuator and delivering in proximity to said carrier, a counter, and means operated by a normal closing movement of the grippers for permitting an actuation of said counter.

3. In a machine of the class described, a drum, an actuator for said drum, a casing having a mouth adjacent to said actuator and delivering in proximity to said drum, a counter actuated by the rotation of said drum, and means for permitting an actuation of the counter during feeding movements of the drum.

4. In a machine of'the class described, a drum, an actuator therefor, grippers on said drum, a casing having a mouth in proximity to said actuator and delivering to said drum, receiving means to which said drum delivers, means operated by the rotation of the drum for opening and closing said grippers, a counter, and means for permitting an actuation of said counter when the grippers have a normal closing movement.

5. In a machine of the class described, a drum, a casing having a hopper delivering to said drum, a lip on the hopper for rotating said drum, grippers on the drum opened and closed by the rotation of the drum, a counter actuated by the rotation of th drum, receiving means to which the drum delivers, and means for permitting an actu ation of said counter when the grippers have a normal closing movement.

6. In a machine of the class described, a drum comprising a series of disks, grippers closing into the space between said disks, a counter actuated by the rotation of said drum, and means actuated by a normal movement of the grippers between said disks for permitting an actuation of said counter.

7. In a machine of the class described, a carrier adapted to receive and advance an article, a counter adapted to be actuated by said carrier, and means permitting actuation of said counter during feeding movements of the carrier, said means beingrendered operative by the presence of the article being advanced by the carrier.

8. In a machine of the class described, a gripper carrier, a casing having a receiving mouth, a lip movable on said mouth, means for moving said carrier from said lip, a counter stud on the casing, means on the carrier for positioning said stud at different radial positions, and counting mechanism in the path of said stud adapted to be actuated in certain radial positions thereof.

9. In a machine of the class described, a gripper carrier, a casing having a receiving mouth, means for moving said carrier, a counter stud rocking on said carrier, said counter stud having a limited outward rocking movement, and a counter located to be in a path where it may be engaged by said counter stud at the limit of its rocking movement.

10. In a machine of the class described, a carrier, a casing having a receiving mouth, a movable lip on said mouth, means for moving said carrier by saidv lip, grippers upon said carrier movable in a closing direction beyond normal gripping position, a counter, and a device for actuating said counter by said carrier, and means for automatically moving said device to inoperative position when the grippers move in a closing direction beyond normal gripping position.

11. In a machine of the class described, a gripper carrier, a casing having areceiving mouth, a lip movable on said mouth, means for moving said carrier from said lip, a counter, and means on said carrier for actu ating said counter determined by the presence of an article gripped on said carrier.

'12. In a machine of the class described, a gripper carrier, a casing having a receiving mouth, a lip movable on said'mouth, a plurality of sets of grippers on said carrier, secondary levers operated by said grippers upon an excessive movement thereof, and a counter actuated by said secondary levers when so displaced.

13. In a machine of the class described, a carrier, a casing having a receiving mouth, a lip movable on said mouth, means for moving said carrier from said lip, grippers on said carrier, secondary levers displaced by said grippers, studs projecting laterally from said secondary levers, and a counter adapted to be engaged by said studs in certain positions thereof.

ll. In a machine of the class described, a carrier drum having a drum head, a casing having a receiving mouth, a lip movable on said mouth, means for moving said carrier from said lip, receiving means within said casing, a gripper on said drum, a counter stud projecting laterally oversaid drumhead and displaced by said gripper, and a Geneva wheel cooperating with said drum head and counter stud.

15. In a machine of the class described, a gripper drum having a head with a peripheral notch, an actuator for said drum, a gripper on said drum, a counter stud displaced by said gripper, and projecting laterally over said head opposite said notch, and a Geneva wheel cooperating with said head and stud.

16. In a machine of the class described, a carrier drum having a drum head, an actuator therefor, a gripper axle extending along the drum, an actuating lever therefor outside of said drum head, a fixed cam cooperating with said lever, a secondary lever havin a tappet engaged by said actuating lever, a laterally projecting stud on said secondary lever extending over said drum head, and a Geneva stop wheel cooperating with said stud and drum head.

17. In a machine of the class described, a carrier adapted to receive and advance an article, grippers upon said carrier movable in a closing direction beyond normal gripping position, a device for actuating said counter by said carrier, and means for automatically moving said device to inoperative position when the grippers move in a closing direction beyond normal gripping position.

18. In a machine of the class described, a feeding drum, an actuator for said drum, a counter, a gripper adapted to clamp the article to be counted upon the drum to cause the article to be advanced with the drum, said gripper when in clamping position establishing an operative connection between the drum and counter.

19. In a machine of the class described, a feeding drum, an actuator for said drum, a. casing having a mouth adjacent to said actuator and delivering in proximity to said drum, a counter adapted to be actuated by the rotation of said drum, and a connection between the drum and counter whereby the counter is actuated by the rotation of the drum, said connection including a part adapted to engage the article to be counted to position the connection in operative relation to the drum.

20. In a machine of the class specified, a carrier provided with grippers, actuating means therefor, an arm pivoted on said car rier to move bodily therewith, a counter adapted to be operated by the said arm, operating means for said grippers,said oper ating means and arm having co-acting parts adapted to engage and displace said arm when the grippers operate without engagement with an article.

Signed at Brooklyn in the county of Kings and State of New York this 11th day of June A. D. 1914.

FREDERICK G. JAHN.

Witnesses:

C. O. WooLLBY, J OHN J. DOYLE.

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